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Debate or range yourself against the motion

Free your minds,

Free society,

Be limitless,Be innovative,

I want to lead the community,Community has to communicate with itself,

We need people with more ideas,Question every one, everybody and everything,

We are all equal,Change for the better

Like heavy rain over a thirsty fertile land, these historical words were

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Extremely andi n t e l l e c t u a l l ycompelling, out of knowledge

thirst and beyond inquisitive

curiosity, Ahmad Bin Hanbal

Independent School for Boys,

proud of its English Department

staff , realized an envious

exploit seemly fairly possible to

other institutions of the Qatari

E d u c a t i o n a l

System and

Corps. Having

managed this,

the English

D e p a r t m e n t

satisfactorily emphasized, and

got its commitment to, the

importance of cultural world

outside and inside Qatar directly

away from probationary

phase thus probing the world

of debate from a daring

proximity.

On Thursday the

11th day of November2010 late in the morning,

exactly at 11:55 , our

School Headmaster Mr.

Jamil Al-Shammary

and the Academic vice

-principal Mr. Reda Saad

Al Mahdy, Mr. Mithgal,

the English department

Head, and the English

teachers were at the LRC

honorably welcoming the Doha

Debates founder and chairman

accompanied by Ms. Sheila,

the Educational Outreach

and Logistic

Coordinator at the

Doha Debates, aswell as a Jordanian

journalist.

All parts were thoroughly

ready to launch the carefully

prepared and professional

meeting which unexpectedly

proved to be an identical

microcosm of the Doha Debates

meeting at the Qatar Foundation

Building. The presence of our

curious and lovely students,

our Senior Management, our

Department and the honourable

guests of other schools, ranging

from English Department heads

to English teachers paved the

way to a fruitfully polemical

debate touching and reachingalmost all sorts and aspects of

the former Tims Hard Talk.

The Topics were various and

colourful enough to powercoat

the interlocutors un-histrionic

participations to a more cosy

and relaxed talk yet in the same

time revived and interactively

generated.

The history and the course

of the Doha Debates, censorship,

The Why and How behind

Tims rst arrival to Doha andhis biography synopsis were

... (you

are)people of

persuasion

and open

thinking

...(you are) people

of persuasion andopen thinking

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I dont have a sayin that, Im totallyneutral

the rst highlighted stations and

engines for further topics partly

out of the meeting respect and

mostly rigorously embedded in

the spirit of the Doha Debates in

particular.

Tim was

p a s s i o n a t e l y

caring and

easygoing while

handling the

questions which he ranked as not

difcult or hard but tough enough

to raise the value of the meeting

to an unexpected high intellectuallevel. The students did almost the

majority of the talk with a more

than one question posed by

each of them. The openness he

intersected in his speech with

the challenging issues he tackled

o v e r w h e l m e d

our students and

drove our guests

over the jeopardy

bridge.

He rst talked

of the political area and arena

in terms of the rst and prime

issue to open up the talk

with hyphenating it whilewaging a war on a direct

shorted- sightedness and

submissiveness. He urged the

students to have a rmer stand

against being governed without

their own will by saying that

the government is supposed

to serve you and not the otherway round. They should be

decision makers and be what

they want to be. The diversity

of opinions seemed to be in his

point of view the legitimate

founder of the debating culture.

An important contribution to

an ideal society is by having the

bold lead in ones community

not for the sake of leading but

to make life seem and be better.

More ideas will not demolish

the social concord yet add to

its homogeneity and closely-

woven fabric. Hope seems in

our point of view his leading

motive in a dull and dismal

world. He gave an exampleof his triggering act that gave

him the opportunity to settle

down in Qatar as a legitimately

ofcial Doha Debates founder

safe from censorship.

TV and radio are means, for

him, to make ones voice heard

and reach societies, cultures,

nations and minds. He gave

another unexpectedly striking

example of our 15-century

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religious culture as Muslims.

He said that the debating

and consultative culture was

started with us, the Muslims,

by our Prophet MOHAMMED

(PBUH) who was the rst man

who created the foundations for

a society that should delegate

its points of views to reach and

accomplish a controlled seizure

of the very relevant solutions,

decisions, while shunning

reckless improvisation and

the unequal and unjust

arbitrariness.

The 22 Arab nations with

200 million people and the 1,

600,000 Muslims are talented

and have the potential will to

create a nation of creativity,

ingenuity and inventiveness.

We still have something to

say and offer. People of

persuasion and open thinking

is the equivalent to our rst

steps in the stream of Islamic

turn of mind.

Students proved to

be important and relevant

in asking questions and

posing exclamations around

Tims choice of topics, guests,

alternatives and his position

in the talks which he says is

neutral.

I dont have a say in that,

Im totally neutral seems toentitle his statically unbiased

position in the debates and

that is what we have felt after

attending The Doha Debates.

The questions he poses his

guests being for the motion

or against it are purely for the

purpose of clarication and

behind the quest of certainty,

which is intended to help the

audience better handle the

positions taken by the debating

guests.

Our students indefatigably

were keen on asking questionsabout Tims personal and

professional life. He was trying

to stick more to the notion of

mind and matter, individualism

vis--vis the very person on the

one hand and society on the

other, communicational basics

and other principally technical

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issues whereby his world of

the limitless free mind becomes

highly potentially realisable. He

is against the saying Mind over

matter. Keep your mind because

at the end it wont matter

which seems to be fraught withcarelessness, negligence and

ignorance that stem most from

embarrassing cowardice, and

steady illiteracy and knowledge

of the matter.

Mind for him will set offfor the freer version of the

intellect but within the logically

suitable coating of the eternally

inseparable responsibility

and accountability. Qatar for

him is getting freer than other

contemporary societies in the

region and of the same roots.

Being able to cut the old rusty

ties of hugely heavily-burdened

turn of mind tarnished

mainly by the stereotypes and

taboos...Being able to cut the

umbilical cord with the opaque

unclear vision of

reality and truth,

our Nation

authent ica l ly

erupts and

appears as such a

safe, pure, clean

and clear from

tarnishing its

contemporary

i m a g e

among the developed world

nations.

Tim has understood that

his invitation by his HighnessAL Amir Hamad Bin Khalifa

Al Thani, the government and

the Cultural Ministry is far way

above showing off or boasting

to boost the propaganda of

a fast fading pretence. He

admitted that he set the rules for

a free debate above the ties of

censorship which were, over a

matter of principle, accepted on

the spur of the moment. When

he was asked about his 35- year

experience he had with the BBC

he said that he didnt receive any

directives from the BBC on how

or what to do. He enjoyed the

experience of non- interference

that prevailed.